Thought for the Day 10/18/2019

Friday Tale: A Somebody with God

How many times have we had to reach

the end of our own resources before we

remembered to trust in God, the one

steadfast resource of our lives? We're all

in need of a spiritual exodus day by day.

When our faith causes difficulties, our

first response is to fall back on our

familiar resources, people, things, self

and only when these do not help can we

truly lean only upon God for our needs.

Dwight Moody once said that Moses spent

forty years in the king's palace thinking that

he was somebody; then he lived forty years in the

wilderness finding out that without God he was a nobody;

finally, he spent forty more years discovering how a

nobody with God can be a somebody. "And he was right.

When Moses and the people found out they were

nobodies without the resource of God,

that's when the Exodus began."

~ Joel C. Gregory

For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands.

He knows your going through this great wilderness.

These forty years the Lord your God has been with you.

You have lacked nothing. ....He led his people out like sheep

and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. 

~ Deuteronomy 2:7 with Psalm 72:52